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By algorithmically detecting and defeating emerging DDoS attack vectors, Corero is providing network and security teams with a powerful tool to keep up with the evolving DDoS attack landscape. This enables organisations to better respond to events, protect their customers, and ensure maximum availability. Corero Network Security has announced enhancements to its SmartWall Threat Defence (TDS) System, which now delivers adaptive, analytics-driven DDoS.

Corero is eliminating the need for human intervention in the event of a DDoS attack with the introduction of its powerful Smart-Rule and Flex-Rule filter technologies to analyse and filter malicious attack traffic, combined with automatic anomaly detection and rate-limiting. Attacks are blocked in real-time with a do-no-harm approach, allowing legitimate user traffic to flow unimpeded throughout the duration of the attack.

With its patent pending Smart-Rule adaptive filtering technology, Corero is enabling true automated detection and response in the face of newly detected DDoS attack vectors. The Smart-Rule leverages both heuristics and behavioural analysis to track, detect and mitigate attacks using patent- pending algorithms. It determines variances from normal behaviour and subsequently applies specific and targeted filtering to block single as well as multi-vector attacks.

Corero is also launching Flex-Rule on-demand countermeasures, arming its customers with a powerful ad hoc filtering capability to allow operators to identify and remove certain classes of DDoS attacks that are not easily mapped to a static protection rule. The SmartWall TDS uses the Flex-Rule with heuristics and closed loop policy allows the SmartWall TDS to quickly determine the nature of an attack and automatically create a countermeasure. This mechanism reduces overall operating expense by allowing operators to concentrate on other forms of security threats impacting the organization.

“This latest technology release supports customer demand for automatic mitigation, utilising a closed loop system response to even the most sophisticated DDoS attacks," said Dave Larson, CTO and Vice President, Product, Corero Network Security. "The SmartWall TDS inspects traffic at line rate, and as new DDoS attack techniques are identified, sophisticated analysis determines the need for customising detection filters and blocking the attack immediately, vastly improving attack visibility, advanced threat protection and time to mitigation.”